The proclamation of the Resurrection this year too started from Jerusalem and spread throughout the world. Like the women of the Gospel and the disciples "we returned before the empty tomb of Christ, to pray, to contemplate, to be reconfirmed in the faith."

It was celebrated in front of the empty Sepulcher on Holy Saturday morning "The Mother of all Vigils." The ringing of bells, the singing of the Gloria and the Alleluia announced Easter.

Happy Easter from Jerusalem! May the Risen Lord bring hope to each and every one of you, and illuminate any night that may darken your heart. May He enable you to become sowers of faith and hope for the future.

One week after Catholic Easter, it's a holiday for the faithful who follow the Julian calendar. A tale of the Triduum and the miracle of the fire, announcing the Resurrection.

At Emmaus Al Qubeibeh, Franciscans, local Christians, religious and pilgrims gathered to celebrate the Manifestation of the Risen Jesus to the two disciples.

On Easter morning, the Resurrection Mass and the announcement to the whole world from the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher.

From Jerusalem, where the Easter Vigil is celebrated on Saturday morning, the message of the Resurrection resounds for the whole world.

Easter Message 2022 - Br Francesco Patton, ofm, Custos of the Holy Land

The exchange of greetings between the heads of the different Christian denominations in Jerusalem is a long-established practice, which after the year of pandemic returns to take place in person. The friars of the Custody of the Holy Land brought their good wishes to the Greek, Ethiopian, Syriac and Coptic Orthodox churches a few days after the Orthodox Easter.

It is the most eagerly awaited moment of Easter for Orthodox Christians in Jerusalem: the sacred fire, the light that according to tradition is prodigiously lit on the morning of Holy Saturday at the place where Jesus was buried. It soon illuminates the entire Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the streets of the city and all the Orthodox churches in the world.

A crossroads of trade in the region where Jesus' preaching was focused, a Jewish village that was also important from a cultural and economic point of view. It is Magdala, on the shores of Lake Tiberias, which celebrates Mary Magdalene at the end of the eighth day of Easter.

On Easter Monday Franciscans, local Christians and religious gathered at Emmaus Al Qubeibeh to celebrate the appearance of the Risen Jesus to the two disciples Simeon and Cleophas.

At the end of the Easter morning celebration in Jerusalem, around the shrine of the Sepulchre, four Gospel passages narrating the events that took place on the day of the Resurrection are read in the direction of the four cardinal points, indicating that from here the Easter proclamation reaches the whole world.

The Easter Vigil was celebrated in Jerusalem. The solemn celebration was presided over by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre.

"Stronger than death is love"

Small and unique: to reach the place that commemorates the Ascension of Jesus, forty days after Easter, you have to climb to the highest point of the Mount of Olives, 808 meters above sea level.

From Jordan to Lebanon, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday: live streaming to be close to Christians in this time of Coronavirus pandemic.

With the celebration of Easter Sunday, a "strange" Holy Week in Jerusalem ended.

The festive bells ring in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre to the notes of the "Gloria in Excelsis Deo". The announcement of Easter in Jerusalem takes place on the morning of Holy Saturday. The long and intense liturgy retraces the wonders that the Lord has accomplished for his people.

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Holy Time in Jerusalem 2020

The Way of the Cross in Jerusalem is usually attended by thousands of pilgrims. On this particular Good Friday, only the Custos of the Holy Land, accompanied by a very few friars, will go through it in prayer for the difficult moment that the whole world is facing.

At the Holy Sepulchre there is the celebration of the Holy Mass that commemorates the last supper of Jesus, and in the evening the prayer of the "Hora Sancta": the Easter Triduum begins in Jerusalem.

From the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre the Easter Message of Brother Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land: Tell them that death is won, forever!